Ensuring our practical skills are reducing the risk

Ensuring our practical skills are reducing the risk

Ensuring our practical skills are reducing the risk (427)

Dimity Wadsworth ¹ , Rosi Gates ¹

SA Health, Adelaide, SA, Australia

One of the challenges of practical skills based manual handling training is to ensure the practical methods taught fit within a risk management framework and are compatible with and complementary to the new WHS Legislation and Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice. Although eliminating hazards is our ultimate aim, minimising risk is the more common outcome and may still involve the workers physical interaction with their environment. We saw a need to assist workers and trainers to make a link between their chosen control measure, the principles of safe manual handling and the minimisation of any hazardous characteristics.

As such we have developed simple training tools and activities that can be used both during the problem solving or application to work task component of training or within the work place itself. These provide a simple format to identify the hazardous characteristics of a manual task and guide the choice and review of suitable control measures from the skills and principles covered during training.

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Wadsworth, D

Dimity Wadsworth is a WorkFit Services Training Consultant with SA Health with a passion for developing and delivering practical skills based training. Her current focus is on the Manual Task Local Facilitator model being rolled out across SA Health. Dimity is an Occupational Therapist with experience in rehabilitation, community and acute health settings and was first accredited as a Manuention trainer in 1997. She has worked in manual handling specific roles since 2004. Dimity is a Level 5 Accredited Manutention Trainer, with Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management. & Rosi Gates Rosi Gates is a Workfit Training Consultant working for SA Health who is passionate about reducing the risk to workers and patients through practical training. She is an Occupational Therapist with a Certificate 4 in Training & Assessment, has experience in community, aged care and disability and has worked in a Manual Handling specific role since 2004. Rosi began her Manual handling journey in 1995 becoming an accredited Manutention trainer and currently holds Level 5 Accreditation in 3 Methods. In her current role she is developing and delivering the Manual Tasks Local Facilitator model across all of SA Health.

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